Perception of the prosody and content of sentences in an unfamiliar language in children with autism spectrum disorders |
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| Institution: | 1. College of Staten Island, The Graduate Center of City University of New York, United States;2. Teachers College, Columbia University, United States;3. Eden II School for Autistic Children Inc., United States;1. Institute for Applied Linguistics, School of Foreign Languages, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, China;2. Mental Health Institute of The Second Xiangya Hospital, National Technology Institute of Psychiatry, Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, China;3. Faculty of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510080, China;4. Department of Child Psychiatry, The Shenzhen Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518048, China;5. Department of Neurology, Beijing Children''s Hospital, Beijing 100045, China;1. National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan;2. Teachers College, Columbia University, United States;1. Graduate School of Health Sciences, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan;2. Department of Nursing Childcare, Kawasaki College of Allied Health Professions, Kurashiki, Japan;3. Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan;1. Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Building 10G, 5th Floor, Noerrebrogade 44, Aarhus C 8000, Denmark;2. Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, Building 1483, 3rd Floor, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, Aarhus C 8000, Denmark;3. Royal Academy of Music, Skovgaardsgade 2C, Aarhus C 8000, Denmark;1. Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA;2. Center for Neurobehavioral Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA;3. School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China |
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| Abstract: | Prior research suggests that children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show atypical patterns of attention to the prosody (intonation and emotional tone of voice) and content (words) of spoken sentences. Using a discrimination-choice procedure embedded in a custom-made videogame, we examined attention to these features of sentences in 15 children with ASD (ages 5 years, 5 months–18 years) and 15 age-matched typical controls (TYP). Using an unfamiliar language (German) to remove semantics, we assessed the role of meaning in promoting attention to content over prosody. As in a previous study with English sentences, TYP children attended to content to a greater extent than children with ASD while maintaining equivalent levels of discrimination based on prosody. However, in contrast to previous results, TYP children did not show a preference for enthusiastic over grouchy tone of voice, which suggests that the unfamiliar language rendered affective valence less salient. The results confirm intact perception of prosody in children with ASD, and a more selective pattern of attention to content in TYP children. |
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| Keywords: | Autism Receptive prosody Language Computer game Attention Prioritization deficit hypothesis |
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